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词汇 cortege
释义 cortege
noun[ C ]
uk /kɔːˈteʒ/ us /kɔːrˈteʒ/
a slowly moving line of people or cars at a funeral(缓缓移动的)送葬队伍,送葬车队
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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burial society
catafalque
closed-casket
funeral
funeral director
funeral home
funerary
funereally
hearse
lay
morgue
mortician
mortuary
obsequies
open-casket
pall
send
send something off
viewing
wake
Examples from literature

It was said that the Royal cortege approached. 
Presently the cortege started for the house, and here more stores of various kinds were loaded. 
There was a large military cortege, martial music, and infantry with reversed arms. 
They were conducted to their final resting place by a funeral cortege such as up to that time had never been equalled and since that time has here never been surpassed. 
When she carried out her husband she was by no means content to comply with the conventional custom and follow the funeral cortege with her hair down, beating her naked breast in sight of the onlookers! 

cortege | American Dictionary


cortege
noun[ C ]
us/kɔˈteʒ/
a slowly moving line of people or cars at a funeral

Examples of cortege


cortege
All of those people in black suits, bridesmaids, the cortege with its almost comic realism, might compromise the powerful effect of the preceding scene.
Sarabande et cortege reveals the melodious possibilities of each instrument combined with the varied sonorities of tessitura.
For elderly people to have to watch corteges proceed on their stately way could hardly drive home an unwelcome point more tellingly.
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A number of those in the funeral cortege immediately set upon the car with the obvious intention of pulling out the two occupants.
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Of course, if a sufficient number of police officers or soldiers are available, the funeral cortege can be protected.
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The authorities dilly-dallied over giving another young man personal protection, and we followed his funeral cortege to the grave.
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It is used in conjunction with other police powers to require funeral corteges to follow a specific route and to travel directly to a cemetery.
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The cortege could not leave the family home, and had to be organised from the hospital direct to the cemetery.
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At that point, a civilian car attempted to reverse away from the cortege.
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For example, paramilitaries often seek to take a funeral cortege of one of their members through areas where the population is likely to be extremely hostile.
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What is quite clear, however, is that as it reversed away from the cortege its way was blocked, both forward and backward, by taxis accompanying the funeral.
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It is almost as if before the wedding, or before the wedding is consummated, the funeral cortege is arranged for either the bride or the bridegroom.
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The crowd following his cortege was estimated to have numbered about 200,000 people.
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The cortege was estimated at a half-mile in length.
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Eight women dressed in black walked in front of the cortege.
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